Poets

Dylan J. Kershaw is a comedian and creative producer from the south of England. Dylan is also the host and producer of "I Hate Poetry", a poetry-comedy podcast.

Charlie Pidcock is a music artist from the midlands and also co-hosts "I Hate Poetry."

Jack Greenwood is a filmmaker from Nottingham, UK. He has featured as a guest in many I Hate Poetry episodes.

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

William Procter Matthews III was an American poet and essayist

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

Namerucy Coggerome. Otherwise known as AMC.

Maggie Bowyer is a poet from Greensboro, North Carolina. Maggie has been writing for decades and they have performed across the nation. Their work has been published by Bourgeon, Capsule Stories, Detour Ahead, The Vital Spark, and more.

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H.D.

Emma Pidcock is a poet who hails from the East Midlands. Her journey into poetry began when she read a friend’s poem and thought ‘I could do that.’ She is a published poet and has also had several poems featured on BBC Radio Derby. She enjoys listening to Agatha Christie crime fiction, whilst consuming large quantities of tea and is married to Charlie Pidcock.

Catrina has been writing poetry for almost a year now and was prompted to start during the lonely months of lockdown. She’s mostly inspired by song lyrics and fairytales, and aims to create a strong sense of imagery within her poems. Recently graduated from university, she aims to start travelling in the new year to pursue a career in conservation and development, and to carry on writing!

Paul Madigosky is an avid outdoorsman who is particularly fond of hiking and bushcraft. He graduated with a Bachelors of English degree from Widener University in 2015. Ever since, he had been doing painting and construction work until February of 2021 when he quit his job to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. Upon completion of the Trail, he would like to pursue a career in travel writing, survival training, and/or novel writing.

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II.

Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

Leopold Samuel Marks, MBE was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special Operations Executive organisation.

Charles Causley was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster, and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.

R J Tomlin (Ryan Tomlin) is a 24-year-old independent author, Maze Runner fanboy and poetry street performer, based in Leeds, UK. Author of 'The Transition' and 'JUNK'.

Brandon Marsland is a 32-year-old audio technician by trade and a writer by passion. All his free time is spent with his wife and their four young boys.

Lex is a British author who started writing fiction books but has since tapped into poetry. She has a creative background within theatre and acting which helpss inspire her writing.

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.

In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known as St. Mary's General Hospital, paid tribute to Williams with a memorial plaque that states "We walk the wards that Williams walked"

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.

Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer and Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York City.

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

I. D. Brannan is a 26-year-old Poet that leads a quiet life in Lawrence, Kansas. He has poetry published in a handful of literary platforms and has won the 2020 Burford Theatre Poetry Contest, the 2020 Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest (Japanese poetry forms), and received an HM in the 2021 Kansas Voices Traditional Poetry Contest. He recently received the honor of being one of 23 Poets chosen to be anthologized in the Behind the Vision's Completely Random Writing Prompts: Poetry, Round 2 Contest.

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterised by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language.

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE was an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in British Colonial India, where he spent his childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom.

J. Daniel Cruz is a Mexican LGBTQ writer, poet, and performer living in Los Angeles. His works include flash fiction, short stories, plays, and poetry, depicting stories we seldom hear.

Ashmita first got into writing at the age of 5 when she read "The Owl and The Pussycat", a children's book about an Owl and a Cat who journey together in a boat on a beautiful, moonlit night. So inspired by the wonder and depth of emotion conveyed through the simple words, she knew that she wanted to do the same. Since then she has taken every opportunity to write poems and short stories, and at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 began posting them online via the Instagram account @wordofashy and was happy with the positive responses she received. Due to a busy period in life, she ended up taking a year-long creative break, but has recently begun posting poetry again.

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Michael Miller is a poet, teacher and former journalist who lives in Los Angeles. For more than a decade, he served as a writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times organization, and he founded Moon Tide Press, which has published more than 20 books of poetry to date, in 2006 with fellow poets Lee Mallory and Ricki Mandeville.

Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

Wren Brown is a multi-talented individual residing on the Idaho side of the majestic Tetons. She shares her home with her supportive husband and their affectionate cat, Saturn. A dedicated writer, Wren has carved a niche for herself in the realm of poetry, with a focus on themes of womanhood, healing, and personal growth.

Those interested in following Wren's journey can find her on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram under the handle @wrenbrownpoet.

A. Shank was born with an ulterior motive. What that motive is no one quite knows. Inspired by the mundane trivialities of a day to day existence, usually found in the dole queue, the dark corner of the snooker hall or educating reprobates at a bus shelter. His favourite song is 'Believe' by Cher. He doesn't subscribe to any religion but has been known to sleep in churches.
If it wasn't for his brass hand he'd write all poetry righthanded but the left must suffice, rendering it smudged and incoherent.

Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and other topics.[1] She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and was identified with the San Francisco, California literary and arts community for many years.

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

Tessa Foley’s debut poetry collection ‘Chalet Between Thick Ears’ and follow up “What Sort of Bird are You?” were published by Live Canon. She is currently working on her third collection “Try to Find Me”. She has been recognised in the Ware Poets Competition, Charroux Prize and Arts University Bournemouth Poetry Competition.

Atticus is an anonymous Canadian poet. He writes poems incorporating themes of love, relationships, and adventure.

In 2020, Michael Hoff published his first three poetry books;

Starting with ‘16.2 Superlatives, a fictional story depicting real-life issues regarding suicidal ideations.

Then, ‘Cracking a Nutshell; 50 Poetic Placebos’ with poems about mental health, social issues, and wordplay.

Finally, he released ‘Blue Ducking Under Moonlight; 69 Mating Calls for Cuckoo Birds,’ the love, heartbreak, and erotic collection.

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976.

Michael Brigden is a passionate writer best known under his penname 'The Ordinary Poet'. As The Ordinary Poet his poems can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Michael is an incurable romantic who loves nothing better than to spend time with his wife and kids who are very often his inspiration. He is fascinated, awed and sometimes angered by the world around him, this is reflected within his body of work.

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.

Bea is a 21 year old writer and student from the South of England. She has been writing stories and poetry since she was a child and has since been featured in a number of magazines and anthologies. She has recently released her introductory poetry collection ‘Shades of Blue and Yellow’, and shares some of her work on her instagram. She is also currently writing her first YA novel. As well as writing, Bea is a teacher and undergrad student, and can often be found reading in her local coffee shops!

Olive Y is a 33 year old poet who loves writing poetry on her antique typewriter about romance and woman, loves comedies and being in nature.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

Victoria Abah is a poet aged 24, born in France, raised in Nigeria and The United Kingdom. Her parents are French and Nigerian. She spent the majority of her life in the UK studying and working. At the age of 23 after overcoming various obstacles in her childhood and adolescents years she graduated from the University of East London with a 2:1 in Medical Physiology. With her passion to spread the awareness of mental illness to her own family and friends, she began to post her poems on her website and social media pages.

Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a British poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019.

Pandas Prose resides in Norfolk, a Cornish teacher who is heavily inspired by Plath, Rossetti, Mary Oliver, Frost and Camus.
She found a love of writing relatively recently, and is learning all the time and wants to improve.
She hopes this love of writing will continue.

Laura Ferries is a creative and poet that resides in Liverpool.